Jonathan Sewall

Jonathan Sewall (24 August 1729-27 September 1796) was the colonial Attorney General of Massachusetts from November 1767 to 1775.

Biography
Jonathan Sewall was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1729, and he graduated from Harvard in 1748 and worked as a teacher in Salem until 1756. He later began a successful law practice in Charlestown, and Sewall was appointed Attorney General of Massachusetts, serving from 1767 to 1775. Sewall was a very close friend and patron of future President of the United States John Adams, offering him the position of Advocate General in the Admiralty Court; however, Adams declined. After the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, Sewall and his family took to England, having had their home stormed by a patriot mob. He later served as a judge in the Vice Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia, and he died in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1796.